Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
- Occupation
- novelist, literary critic, writer, prose writer
- Position held
- president of the Société des gens de lettres
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
- May 20, 1799, 1799
- Died
- August 18, 1850, August 19, 1851
